Celebrate Failure
I know that doesn’t sound right. But I mean it. We really don’t appreciate how important it is to fail.
We are all afraid of failing. Either ourselves or someone else. It means disappointing someone, or looking stupid, or wasting time, energy, money – etc. of the important things in life.
Or – does it?!
I recently asked a client to come up with at least 20 reasons failure was a good thing. I asked her to make a ‘Benefits of Failure’ list. Here are a few of my favorites:
- failure forces you to be creative
- failure teaches you that you are soley responsibe for your actions and decisions
- it might in retrospect make you glad that you failed at something you were not really good at to begin with
- and might make you find something much better suited for you
In the end, she had the same conclusion that I did. Failure is a good thing because it can force you to think about what it is you really want.
Especially if you stop, and a take a close look at why you failed. Every failure is a chance to learn to do something better. To become better.
So, next time you catch yourself thinking, “Oh, I can’t – what if I fail?!” turn it on it’s head and shout, ‘I can’t WAIT till I fail!’
You might surprise yourself.
